1925 Pittsburgh Panthers football team

The 1925 Pittsburgh Panthers football team was an American football team that represented the University of Pittsburgh as an independent during the 1925 college football season. In its second season under head coach Jock Sutherland, the team compiled an 8–1 record and outscored opponents by a total of 151 to 34.[1][2] This was the Panthers' first season at Pitt Stadium, and the team played eight of its nine games there.

1925 Pittsburgh Panthers football
ConferenceIndependent
1925 record8–1
Head coachJock Sutherland (2nd season)
Offensive schemeSingle-wing
CaptainRalph Chase
Home stadiumPitt Stadium
1925 Eastern college football independents records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Dartmouth      8 0 0
Fordham      9 1 0
Colgate      7 0 2
Pittsburgh      8 1 0
Syracuse      8 1 1
Lafayette      7 1 1
Holy Cross      8 2 0
Princeton      5 1 1
Penn      7 2 0
Army      7 2 0
Boston College      6 2 0
Cornell      6 2 0
NYU      6 2 1
Villanova      6 2 1
Washington & Jefferson      6 2 1
Carnegie Tech      5 2 1
Yale      5 2 1
Bucknell      7 3 1
Columbia      6 3 1
Geneva      6 3 0
Temple      5 2 2
Harvard      4 3 1
Franklin & Marshall      5 4 0
Brown      5 4 1
Penn State      4 4 1
Lehigh      3 5 1
CCNY      2 5 0
Rutgers      2 7 0
Manhattan      1 6 1
Tufts      1 6 0
Drexel      1 7 0
Duquesne      0 7 0

Halfback Andy Gustafson scored the first touchdown at Pitt Stadium. He was later inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame. Tackle Ralph Chase was a consensus first-team player on the 1925 All-America team.[3]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 26Washington and LeeW 26–020,000[4]
October 3Lafayette
  • Pitt Stadium
  • Pittsburgh, PA
L 9–2030,000[5]
October 10West Virginia
  • Pitt Stadium
  • Pittsburgh, PA (rivalry)
W 15–7[6]
October 17Gettysburg
  • Pitt Stadium
  • Pittsburgh, PA
W 13–025,000[7]
October 24Carnegie Tech
  • Pitt Stadium
  • Pittsburgh, PA
W 12–040,000[8]
October 31Johns Hopkins
  • Pitt Stadium
  • Pittsburgh, PA
W 31–0[9]
November 7Washington & Jefferson
  • Pitt Stadium
  • Pittsburgh, PA
W 6–030,000[10]
November 14at PennW 14–054,000[11]
November 26Penn State
  • Pitt Stadium
  • Pittsburgh, PA (rivalry)
W 23–750,000[12]

References

  1. "Record Book Pitt Football 2005" (PDF). University of Pittsburgh. 2005. p. 163. Retrieved March 27, 2019.
  2. "1925 Pitt Panthers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved March 28, 2019.
  3. "Football Award Winners" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2016. p. 6. Retrieved October 21, 2017.
  4. Regis M. Welsh (September 27, 1925). "Pitt's New Athletic Home Initiated With Victory, 28-0: 20,000 Crowd Sees Wash-Lee Beaten In Stadium Inaugural". The Pittsburgh Post. p. III-2 via Newspapers.com.
  5. "Pitt Is Crushed By Lafayette, 20 to 9". Pittsburgh Gazette Times. October 4, 1925. p. III-2 via Newspapers.com.
  6. "Panthers Trim Mountaineers, 15 to 7". Pittsburgh Gazette-Times. October 11, 1925. p. III-4 via Newspapers.com.
  7. "Panthers Beat Gettysburg by 13 to 0". The Pittsburgh Press. October 18, 1925. p. Sporting 1 via Newspapers.com.
  8. Max E. Hannum (October 25, 1925). "Pitt Beats Tech, 12-0". The Pittsburgh Press. p. Sporting 1 via Newspapers.com.
  9. Max E. Hannum (November 1, 1925). "Pitt Downs Johns Hopkins, 31-0". The Pittsburgh Press. p. Sporting 1 via Newspapers.com.
  10. Max E. Hannum (November 8, 1925). "Panthers Beat Wash-Jeff, 6-0". The Pittsburgh Press. p. Sporting 1 via Newspapers.com.
  11. Gordon Mackay (November 15, 1925). "Penn Bows To Pitt in Bitter Battle by 14-0: Red and Blue Team Crushed by Panthers Before 54,000 Fans". The Philadelphia Inquirer. pp. 1S, 5S via Newspapers.com.
  12. Chester L. Smith (November 27, 1925). "Pitt Wins Over Penn State, 23 to 7". Pittsburgh Gazette-Times. p. 13 via Newspapers.com.
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